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JSGI, or JavaScript Gateway Interface, is an interface between web servers and JavaScript-based web applications and frameworks. It was inspired by the Rack for Ruby and WSGI for Python and was one of the inspirations of PSGI for Perl.

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Jack at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-12-17) is a reference implementation of JSGI.

It has been included in and further developed by the CommonJS project.

JSGI packages

All these packages are for Node.JS.

Low level

  • Q-IO: Promise-based I/O, includes JSGI based HTTP server and client
  • jsgi-node: Low level JSGI interface for Node.JS

    • Framework

    These frameworks allow using promises with Q:

  • joey on GitHub
  • bogart on GitHub

    • The names are inspired by Sinatra.

    References

    JSGI Wikipedia
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